Fifteen Early Bird Book Releases + a few of tomorrow’s heavy-hitters!

Today proves to be another great kick-off to the week. It may be Monday, but there are some blurb-jolters below, and a few that are already tried and true!! Like a new sexy-military contemporary romance from a series that I already love, and a GRITTY biker book that sounds like it could be exactly what we crave from our MC “love stories” and a few marital issues, and a few thrillers. Yep. I don’t think today’s gonna be boring at all. In fact, tomorrow won’t be boring either. LOL! Did you see some of the pre-orders going live tomorrow (or at midnight?! I posted ‘em below, too.

P.S. ➜ The Baller: A Down and Dirty Football Novel by Vi Keeland <— THIS ONE finally just went live TOO!!! I know SO many here were waiting for it, rocking back and forth in the corner, ’cause Amazon was taking its time. Tee hee!

Grey: I want to read The Baller… it sounds like it would be right up my alley…ooh, wait, that sounded… nah, that sounded like something I’d say

Time and Space by Rachel Robinson <— WE LOVE THESE. LOL!! At least I do… and I know a bunch of you do too. Remember that book “Crazy Good” that was soooooo crazy good? This new release is a part of that series.

Clubwhore by Kim Jones <— SHE’S AN MC “club whore” (and this book is written by a real life “old lady”)!!! and Sali is reading and LOVING it. She says: “It’s soooo good so far!!!! Nothing is sugar coated! Kim Tells it EXACTLY like it is!”

The Con Artist by Kitty Thomas <— DARKISH READ KITTY THOMAS ALERT!!! She’s an artist AND a con-artist (well… now at least) and she’s trying to con a billionaire. “She’s promised to steal a nude he covets from a private collector, but plans to substitute her own forgery instead. But which one of them is really the mark?“

Man Up Husband by Danielle Sibarium <— MARITAL ISSUES and they decide to turn up the heat but… “…we’re making our way back to each other. But I can’t help but feel there is something she’s not telling me. Something dark. Something that’s threatening to destroy us…“

Exposure by Kelly Moran <— SHE WAS HIS FANTASY/ROMANCE SUSPENSE! “Raven has her own dark history, one he’s trying desperately to release from her. But as their passion deepens and turns into more, his past rises up from the shadows to claim one last victim…and Noah could lose the only person he can’t live without.“

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Ok, I’m officially pissed off at Amazon. I have been waiting impatiently for The Baller to be released today and it’s STILL not there. I’m looking into other stores. Anyone else ever used KOBO? Every other store has TB already. And of course I still have gift card balance on Amazon. Oh well not like I’ll ever buy another book from them…

Looks like we were all waiting for The Baller! I love Vi Keelsnd! So excited for this one! Looking forward to Pucked Over too! Someone mentioned Cocky Bastard 2…. is that out? I can’t find it! Did I miss something?

Happy Release Day! I’m glad The Baller was finally available on Amazon. Same thing happened to Ground Rules #2. I remember stalking Amazon on release day waiting, very impatiently! Release day means it’s time to go through the list and upload those samples onto my Kindle.

I’m on book #7 of Chicagoland Vampires. I still haven’t tired of this series. It really is just that awesome! It’s like every book is a TV season. There’s always one mystery or situation to solve/resolve. Chloe Neill does such an awesome job keeping the reader tuned in and coming back for more! It reminds me a little of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. PLUS! It’s told completely from the heroine’s point of view (first-person) which is my FAVORITE!!! However, downside is the books are getting more expensive. It went from $6 to up to $12/book. Why must paranormal books be more expensive?

I finally read Broken Dolls by Kitty Thomas. I liked it, but it had so much more potential. It felt like it just stop ended. It could have done with at least 50 more pages, if not more. Or, honestly, another book, part two. There are too many unresolved questions going on in my head still.

Christina! They are expensive because they know they got us hooked. I cheated and read most of those through the library. However, now I just buy the newest when it comes out. I’m not waiting four months to read it!

Okay, now I can finally start the Never Never books. Yay!!! Could there be a better combo than CH and TF? *happy dance*

Hausfrau is going well for me so far. The pacing is CRAZY different in that it goes from present to recent past to a conversation with her psychiatrist and back to present then to long-ago past and back to present, with only a few line spaces to note the transition. It honestly took a bit for me to adjust to all that, but now that I have I can see how each part ties in with the others. It’s actually pretty brilliant. And oh lord, she is a hot freaking mess.

I need to get myself a library card, but I think in Indiana there are certain restrictions. Like, you can get a free one to the library in your county, but if you go outside of it, you have to pay. Our local (county) library isn’t very stocked. I’d have to go to Indianapolis, and it’s quite a trek for me.

I did take a short break from the Chicagoland Vampire series to read The Score and Ricochet (both seriously awesome). I’ll probably take another break after reading book#7 and start something new. I really want to read First Grave on the Right, but yet again, it’s kind of an expensive series. I read the sample and new immediately, it was going to be good. Paranormal will always be my first love.

I may check out Appealed too. I seriously laughed my a%$ off reading Sustained! I had tears streaming down my face. If you haven’t read it, please do! It centers around lawyer, Jake Becker. All male, and all hot. The dialogue reminded me of Emma Chase’s first book in her Tangled series. Ohhhh…… Drew Evans… *sigh*

Jake Becker meets Chelsea in this book. Chelsea recently moves to D.C. after her brother and sister-in-law pass away. She is left to raise her SIX nieces and nephews all by herself (ages 6 months to 14). She meets Becker after one of the kids pick-pockets Becker in a park. He catches the kid and drives him home to tell his parents.

There is a scene where Chelsea and the kids catch the stomach flu and Becker (having never raised a kid much less been around them), comes to Chelsea’s aid. I laughed till I cried! What makes Emma Chase such a great writer is these scenes are so close to real life. Unfiltered and messy. I read that scene out loud to my husband and we were both dying laughing. He said, “Man, that does sound like real life.”

Cristina, All of your endorsement made me go to the library website just now. lol They have Emma Chase! The first in that series is checked out, but still, I can wait. *narrows eyes* Honestly, I have only praise for the library here. It has variety and tons of books for both adults and kids. Apparently Tangled is there too. *squees*

It totally sucks you have to pay to go to another area. I’m not sure if we do here, but I’d hope anyone could just get a card.

Amy, if I remember correctly, I think it’s told completely from his POV. I understand where you’re coming from on POV’s. It’s what kept me from initially reading Chase’s “Tangled” book, but Drew Chase was just hilarious! He was so unfiltered and believable. I was really surprised that I loved it so much! I think it depends on the content of the book. If it’s a more serious tone, then I prefer first person, heroine. But since these books are more romantic comedies, it works for me.

“I head to the kitchen where Rosaleen is perched on the counter beside her baby brother, holding a bottle for him. She says she’s watched her mother and Chelsea do it a thousand times. Thank f%ck for observant kids.
“ ‘You are officially my second in command’,I tell her. ‘You and me together are gonna kick this virus’s a%$.’ She giggles. ‘Okay.’ ”

“Once I get Ronan settled in his swing, I find Rosaleen in the living room. We walk to the kitchen to check out our supplies, but she stops just inside the kitchen door. Her face goes blank and frighteningly ashen. ‘You okay, Rosaleen?’
She opens her mouth to answer – but what comes out is a burst of chunky yellow vomit, like lumpy pancake mix gone sour.
Man down.
She coughs and stares, horrified, at the disaster on the floor, splattered on her shoes and on her sparkly T-shirt. Then she starts to cry. ‘I’m sorry, Jake.’
Something in my chest swells at her tears, making everything feel too tight. I kneel down beside her, my hand rubbing circles on her back. ‘It’s okay Rosaleen – it’s just puke. It’s not a big deal.’
The dog scurries in like Mighty Mouse coming to save the day. Then he starts to chow down on Rosaleen’s vomit.
Robustly.
I gag in the back of my throat, but manage to hold it together. ‘See?’ I tell her, trying to sound cheery. ‘You did me a favor – now I won’t have to feed the dog.’”

For the record, I tried to italicize the excerpt by writing it in Word and copying and pasting it here. Needless to say, it didn’t italicize and so I added the quotation marks and they are all over the place. I hope it makes sense to you guys

Tessa, I am so excited for you! Emma Chase ROCKS! Tangled will go down as one of my all-time fav books! It just made me laugh so hard, plus its the first book I ever shared with my husband. I didn’t read the entire book to him (not sure I could make it through a steamy scene without a fit of giggles and blushing), but I did read the humorous parts. I found Drew’s point of view just so unfiltered and funny that I wanted my husband’s point of view. I read a chapter and then stopped and he was like, “You seriously can’t keep me hanging like that.”. He thought Drew was pretty spot on with his line of thinking. My husband is a muscular, tattooed, alpha man, so that’s saying something. We had so much fun reading it together.

Reading The Baller all day. I love when I’m reading a book and I get that “feel.” The one where you are enjoying what you’re reading and the actual writing and you don’t want to stop reading, but you don’t want it to end. Yeh, that’s what I’m feeling. *sigh*

I just read a FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC book by Jen Frederick called Sacked:A Novel (A Gridiron Novel Book 1). It’s like Elle Kennedy’s & Kristen Callahan’s books….in fact, she thanks both authors in the acknowledgments portion of the book. I loved it! You HAVE to read it!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the cover of “baller” holyee shit! Also I just finished “club whore” and you get to read this book from the clubwhores point of view! It gets you thinking and this is what I’v come up with “never judge a book by its cover as you don’t know anyone to judge them! Enjoyed it!

My fav books are the ones that screw with my mind #Mindf%$ks, BUT romantic comedies are the perfect remedy to piece my mind back together. Kinda like a cigarette after well you know… but I don’t smoke. Or an excellent spa treatment. LOL Emma Chase’s books are perfect for that! I read Sustained after the Twist Me series.

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